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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Fun with Faber-Castell!

Hello and Happy STAMPtember to you all! We are all SO pumped for the fun stuff we have going on for the month! I hope you're getting excited for the give-aways, guest spots, techniques, and showcases!

Today I'm going to show you a gorgeous technique from the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craftblog! A beautiful design by Jill Foster.I love how perfect this card is for the season we're in here right now. The orange/yellow color scheme provokes Autumn feelings.. but the flowers and the proud, blue bird bring out the summery vibe! For more gorgeous inspiration, check out Jill Foster's blog HERE.

Next, begin coloring in the stamp with the Faber-CastellYellow Art GRIP Colored Pencils. Use oranges, reds, and yellows to color flowers, again starting with your lightest color and adding darker colors on top, leaving a few white highlights on each petal. I love these Faber-Castell Pencils because you can add color upon color without any waxy build-up or "blooming".

Next get that beautiful bird colored in with your Blue Art GRIP Colored Pencils. Another reason I really am proud of these products is over 80% of these pencils are produced from reforested wood. On top of that, the varnish on the barrels is an eco-friendly water-based lacquer first developed by Faber-Castell!

These pencils are so easy to blend, and with all the colors it's so easy to make your designs colored exactly how you'd want them to be! If you'd want to make your flower a more warm color, you could always use the Red Art GRIP Colored Pencils too!

Now it's time for my FIRST time to offer you all BLOG CANDY and I'm so excited! Just comment and tell me your FAVORITE costume you've ever seen for Halloween or a costume party and you could WIN this Hero Arts Clear Stamp Set! The winner will be announced on tomorrow's blog! (Get ready for LOTS of opportunities like this ALL of STAMPtember!)

64 comments:

OH love the colors & image of that card! Now all time fav. costume w/out a doubt was Wonder Woman. I wore it way after Halloween Now I giggle because my little girl was Princess Peach (Mario Bro.) for last Halloween and its strange not see her in the costume almost daily. Melts my heart. Thanks for the chance.

Oh I so love this card with the beautiful bird and flowers, it´s jsut gorgeous.My favorite costume is definatelæy a couple of years agop, my granddaughter was dressed as a good fairy for scrovetide here, and her baby sister was dressed as Winnie the Pooh. They were botrh just too cute and to see their happyfaces was worth all the hard work making them ha ha ha.

We go to Cedar Point every year for Halloween Weekends...I have seen so many awesome costumes there...I don't think I could pick a favorite...the one that comes to mind is...a woman was dressed up like a "scary" kid...she was pushing a baby carriage and when you looked down to see the "baby"...the baby popped out at you!!

I love Halloween! Last year was my son's first birthday and my husband REALLY wanted to pick out the first costume (as a mom this was hard to let him do!!!) ... BUT I did...and he picked Yoda! My little Joah was the cutest Yoda ever and everyone else felt the same :)

My mother always made our costumes and my favorite one was a bat with the wings made out of an old black umbrella that she sewed under my skeeves and to the sides of my black jacket, so it really looked like bat wings when I raised my arms!

The card is gorgeous and that coloring... WOW! I think my favorite costumes are when a family dresses up all to match one another. Last year I saw a Wizard of Oz family where the baby was the lion! It was so super cute! :)

Gorgeous card. I just got my Faber-Castell set. My favorite Halloween custom was from 2 years ago. I saw this guy wearing a tree costume that looks so real and it even has squirrel toys on its branch. Really awesome!

Beautiful card!My favourite costume was a robot I made as a kid (grade four I think). Bulky boxes covered with tin foil and the eyes cut out. I came up with the idea and made it myself. I was so proud!

Well, when I was younger, me an my cousin's dressed up as the California raisin's....if anyone remembers them. I played the Sax so I was that raisin :O) We used black garbage bags, and tights. I wish I had a picture. I'm sure someone does because it was at our churches Halloween Party.

The one that sticks out in my mind was when I saw a grown man wearing a Mr. Incredible costume at Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at Disney World! Hysterical! And he must have been dying because it was really hot that day!!

This card is beautiful...I must learn how to color with pencils one of these days. My fave costume I ever saw was a Minnie Mouse costume. You can't beat a flouncy red polka dot dress and those cute ears!

I love the blog candy! My fave costume was the time my preschool aged daughter and I dressed up as Tinkerbell and Peter Pan.... I made our costumes and they turned out great! My dd was a darling Tink! That was about 1986! DeniseB

Thank you so much for the tips for the Faber-Castell pencils, I am always wondering what the difference is between the different brands. Also, I think one of the neighborhood kids was dressed up as a ladybug once, the little little kids are always so cute. I remember in first grade I dressed up as a glow-worm, do you remember those? Thank you for sharing.

I love halloween! My favorite costume I can remember was a silly friend of mine in high school. He decided to carve a pumpkin and wear it on his head to a costume party. He was crazy, and it was really funny!

My favorite and fun outfit was to dress up as a "night stand". I grab a paper box (which I had painted withe) and put it over my shoulders, I put a lamp shade over my head with a flashlight so I could turn it ON/OFF and glues, coins, a alarm clock, a box of tissues, a set of key and little stuff you usually throw on a night stand. I painted my face with and whore a long sleeve white t-shirt

hi - my favorite costumes are the ones the kids think up and make - i have seen a washing machine complete with a window and clothing swing in the window in the belly, a fish tank on suspenders with glow in the dark fish, suspended from fishing wire, a light over the tank, and a bubbling sound, just to name my all time favorites! Thanks for a chance to share.Jo

I've yet to find good pencils, I'll have to check those out. As for the best costume I've seen. Last year to friends have to adorable children young children. The 2 year old was Princess Lea, and their son less than a year Chewbacca.

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